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LOCK HER UP!
A new inspector general (IG) investigation into the FBI’s conduct leading up the 2016 election is likely to continue after Inauguration Day, whether President-elect Donald Trump wants it or not.
Although the inspector general himself, Michael E. Horowitz, is a political appointee, everyone beneath him is a career official.
Trump could remove Horowitz, but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say it’s unlikely that he would be able to halt the investigation.
The president “cannot shut down a probe, that’s the whole point of the IG,” House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said. “They’re supposed to be independent.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-...cant-stop-investigation-of-clinton-email-case
A new inspector general (IG) investigation into the FBI’s conduct leading up the 2016 election is likely to continue after Inauguration Day, whether President-elect Donald Trump wants it or not.
Although the inspector general himself, Michael E. Horowitz, is a political appointee, everyone beneath him is a career official.
Trump could remove Horowitz, but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle say it’s unlikely that he would be able to halt the investigation.
The president “cannot shut down a probe, that’s the whole point of the IG,” House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said. “They’re supposed to be independent.”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-...cant-stop-investigation-of-clinton-email-case